The story tells of a teacher, Miss Pizzi, who took the children of the Terza C class in the Kingdom of Silence - a wood at the border of the city - and lost everybody there. Then the journalists, soldiers and policemen came, but nor them and nor the town mayor could make the children come back from the Silent Wood. Luì, a crazy child who stands for hours under the rain and listens to the leaves speaking, will solve the situation going into the wood simply armed of his imagination, catching shapes and colours and the armony that they produce in Art, a music that shed into the hole wood and made the children follow it and get out of the Silent labyrinth.

The words by Guido Quarzo let the children live landscapes of sounds, shapes and colours, suggested by the works by Luigi Mainolfi, things that would like to become nature in spite of adverse temptations.

Luigi Mainolfi, born at Rotondi (AV) in 1948, he completed his studies at the Accademia di Napoli, gaining a diploma in painting. In the Seventies, he moved to Turin, where he taught at an arts-based high school. From 1979, with the realisation of the Bell , he took a determined step towards a rebirth of sculpture in the panorama of contemporary art. He makes his sculptures using terracotta, wood, bronze and other metals. Blending nature and artifice, and so creating ambiguous, surprising crosses; fabulous monsters able to stimulate our fantasy and arouse unexpected ideas.

Guido Quarzo, born in Torino in 1948, a graduate in pedagogy, he has worked for many years in primary school education, both as teacher and as instructor. In particular, he has worked with theatre for children, writing scripts, and organising workshops and shows. Since 1989, he has begun to publish narrative texts for children of various ages which have won him numerous literary prizes. In 1999, he left the teaching sector to dedicate himself completely to writing. With hopefulmonster he has also published Tales of stone and more and Il costruttore di torri.

The series of catalogues made by hopefulmonster for GAM, Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, opens with a monograph dedicated to artist Eva Marisaldi in occasion of her exhibit at GAM from November 15th 2002 to January 15th 2003. 

The catalogue, that narrates the artistic personality of Eva Marisaldi, both through her works and thanks her biographical writings of 1994 and here published for the first time, opens up with her work up until 2002 (date of publication, NdR), made of installations, videos and numerous drawings. 

Through her drawings, that for Eva Marisaldi represent a mean of narrating many stories suspended in space and time, one reaches the sound works all centered on the mind, on thoughts, that get colored by emotion and desire. 

Two critical writings, one by Elena Volpato, curator of the exhibition, the other by Rosalba Paiano, accompany the images to deepen the themes of Marisaldi’s art, and analyze her work, taking on their meaning and poetry. 

The volume is the catalogue of the Mario Merz. Opere storiche – installazioni exhibition presented at the Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires from 19 October 2002 to 10 January 2003. The exhibition, curated by Danilo Eccher, for the first time presented the work of Mario Merz in Latin America. The catalogue includes a conversation between the curator and the artist, texts by Giorgio Guglielmino, Lucas Fragass and Hugo Petruschansky and an extensive photographic documentation.

This volume is the catalogue of the exhibition of Bernd & Hilla Becher and Robert Smithson at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, from 30 November 2001 to 3 March 2002. The exhibition, curated by James Lingwood, brought together specific groups of works by Robert Smithson and Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose starting point is the visit they made together to Oberhausen, in the Ruhr area of Germany, in 1968. Robert Smithson and the Bechers are among the most significant names in the history of art of the second half of the twentieth century. Co-curated by James Lingwood, a longtime associate of the Bechers and organiser of the first major retrospective exhibition of Smithson’s work in Europe, this new exhibition presents selected works by Smithson and the Bechers from the brief period between the publication of Smithson’s seminal photo essay A Tour of The Monuments of Passaic in December 1967 and the publication of the Bechers’ first book, Anonyme Sculpturen, in 1970.

The tenth catalogue of the Avvistamenti | Sightings series is dedicated to German artist Tobias Rehberger and published in occasion of his solo exhibition at GAM, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, from May 4th to June 30th 2002. 

The monograph opens up with the photographic documentation of the exhibit, to then narrate through the images Rehberger’s artistic career, from 1994 onwards, and ending with the photographs from the latest exhibit by the artist in Karlsruhe, Germany. 

The volume also presents an essay by Magrit Brehm, curator of the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden and interview of Alessandra Pace with the artist. 

Avvistamenti | Sightings is a project by GAM, Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Torino, supervised by Alessandra Pace. It expects ten personal exhibitions by international artists and ten catalogues, published by hopefulmonster, containing the artworks' photographic documentation, critical essays by important museum's supervisors and art historians, an interview to the artist and a complete bio/bibliography.

A new tale by Miguel Angel Mendo for La favola dell'arte . A young artist, Nari Ward, Jamaican by birth but living in New York, provides the inspiration for this new adventure. A tale "against". Against waste, standardization, extravagant consumption, which can lead us and our children to loose the joy of preserving things with love, and lose our relationship with other people, both similar and different to us.

La favola dell'arte , or a fabulous way of entering the world of art. The art of writing and the art of the figure in a close synergy at the service of fun and learning.

Nari Ward was born in St. Andrews, Jamaica, in 1963. “[...] While Ward resonates far beyond the Harlem locale that often acts as incubator for his creative impulses, he often acts as lay archaeologist of this well-chronicled neighborhood. [...] He is a seeker and his art tells the tale of this self-compelled odissey. [...] Sometimes, the things that catch his eye are too close to us; competing for our divided attention, they simply fall off the radar screen. His evocative installations incorporate everyday finds baby strollers, stockfish, shopping carts, plastic bags sending out an SOS to which we can't help but respond” (Olukemi Ilesanmi).

Miguel Angel Mendo was born in Madrid in 1949. A graduate in psychology, he began working as a psychotherapist in close contact with the world of children and alternative pedagogy. He has written books for children, but also for the theatre, and in the past has been a teacher of cinema, a contributor to various periodicals and an editor of television and radio programmes.